[camtarn]

It's an interesting point. Perhaps the reason they ask people to move the scooters is that they also sometimes need scooters to be retrieved from weird places and left somewhere more convenient.

So, sure, a scooter which was used and left on a main street can just stay there and get its battery swapped, but maybe it's not worth trying to figure out which scooters need moved and which battery-swapped, and to get the chargers to do the right thing in each case.

The fact that they pay different prices per scooter might invalidate this, but just a guess.